Any small started-up business will get successful when the establisher observes all the points before starting up that business. Imagine that you want to establish a business and you believe that if you fulfil a special idea, you will become successful in […]

Any small started-up business will get successful when the establisher observes all the points before starting up that business.

Imagine that you want to establish a business and you believe that if you fulfil a special idea, you will become successful in the market. But starting up a business which makes you financially successful requires doing some affairs that we are going to introduce to you.

With regards to the growth in business space and technological advances, more and more businesses with the target of presenting services to people are started day by day and this opportunity exists for people to establish their own business. According to the statistics given in 2018, about 28 million jobs have been created in USA through small businesses; but what are the necessary actions to do to start a small business with a comprehensive plan?

1- Do your researches accurately.

Before starting any business, you should do extensive researches about what you want to present. Researches about whether your idea has enough potential to be a successful idea, whether your idea supplies a new product to the market or it is just offered to compete with other products. These researches could be evaluated by the following steps.

Does your product obviate any need of people?

Does your product have any rivals?

Which companies are your rivals in the market?

How do your rivals compete with you?

How is your business going to take part in competition area?

Don’t forget that asking these questions and answering them is known as a kind of research and it is necessary to actualize them before starting any business.

2- Making a good plan

You need a plan to fulfil the idea of your business. A general plan is a general scheme which guides your business in different directions. This plan should explain exactly how you enter the market and how to take part in competition area.

3- Take financial affairs seriously

Some people assume that they can easily actualize what they imagine because they think small businesses unlike great businesses do not cost a lot to start. It is true that starting a small business does not need a lot of money, but it requires initial investment.

You should account all the costs for starting a business. You should account the costs of a place for activity, the salaries of employers, taxes and the points you should observe. If you add all these expenses together, it equals the cost you need to start a small business.

4- Choosing a name and a brand for your business

The name of your business plays a role in every aspect of your business, thus its name should be appropriate and be rather expressive of your business. Be careful to think of all potential concepts. If you want to register a website to introduce your products, it should include the name of your brand or at least it should not be registered before.

5- Get the necessary permissions

Given that you want to start your business and you need bank accounts for your business and/or urban advertisements, you are required to get the necessary permissions for your business. Those who want to start a business inside a country should go through some special obstacles and if you are not completely familiar with it, it is recommended to discuss the experts in this field.

6- Selecting location and collecting a team

Now, it’s turn to select your team and find an office to settle in. Here, there are three states to select the location. The first one is to buy the estate. The second one is to rent an estate for a certain time and the third state is to use shared workspace which has been greatly welcomed by the public.

Team gathering depends on how much a boss of a business needs it. How many operators for support section? How many employer for finance department? How many for technical section? All of these depends on the viewpoint of the boss and how extensive is that business at the beginning. In the second case, managers mostly try to take advantage of teleworkers and definitely, the expenses will be reduced.

7- Starting Business and Finding the Probable Errors

In the last stage, it’s time to start and reveal your business. Most of the startup businesses consider these two defaults:

Discount for a limited time

whether your business is virtual or physical (maybe in both states), set a short and time discount on the occasion of opening your business.

Advertisements

advertisements can be the most important and the most challenging part at the beginning of a business. What type should be your advertisement? Extensively city-wide advertisement or for its specific audiences? Advertisements in media like Instagram and telegram? All these named items depends on which range of people you want to involve in your business.

You can be successful in your workplace and help to upgrade the organization only when you raise your work performance to the highest possible level. Neuro-linguistic programming system or NLP helps how to raise the work performance. Individuals’ views could be useful […]

You can be successful in your workplace and help to upgrade the organization only when you raise your work performance to the highest possible level.

Neuro-linguistic programming system or NLP helps how to raise the work performance. Individuals’ views could be useful and efficient for the organization and if one viewpoint is processed skillfully and accurately, it will encourage and motivate other people as much as they try their bests extremely to achieve the goals. The opposite can happen, too. In other words, if a viewpoint is not inspiring and idealist, it will bring no benefit for the organization and does not motivate others to trigger the future. Therefore, how can the goals of the organization proceed further by making appropriate viewpoints? We explain in the following.

Have a Purposeful Viewpoint

A viewpoint should be stated briefly. When your comments are summarized, it is better to concentrate on them more. The more important point is that it should be easy to be visualized by others. For instance, it should not be an idea that just you yourself are able to visualize it. Add your sensory experiences to it; it means when you are processing such views, what you see and what you hear; then you’ll have an interesting and encouraging viewpoint. When you describe an issue in terms of sensory experiences, you give it more meaning and you are enlivening it.

Creating a Metaphor

Metaphor was first explained by Aristotle as a kind of simile. We use metaphors during a day unconsciously or consciously. When we use metaphors, in fact we describe something on the basis of another thing.

It could be very beneficial to state a viewpoint through creating a metaphor. Unconscious mind receives the existing metaphors very quickly and forms a meaning to it, even if they are others’ views and come out of their minds. In fact, when you say something by metaphor, you are enlivening your views.

Pre-programming Helps You!

A good and practical plan which leads to raise your work order will help you to approximate your viewpoint more to what you want. It is much important to make a balance between what you want to do and the time you spend to pose an idea. Write down your comments on a paper. It is not very important how much this point of view can increase the total performance; what can be useful for you in general is collecting the written ideas and making a good conclusion of those notes.

Mention Group Views

Make sure that all people attend the meeting you are holding and specify their metaphors for their views. Remind them that how would the organization be like when its performance gets the ideal level. State it as a metaphor.

Ask the group members to talk with other members about their metaphor by using accurate words and images. Dedicate a short time to members to talk about their metaphors.

Every time that each member talks about his/her metaphor, give 10 minutes to other members to ask their questions to get more familiar with that metaphor and the existing values. Ask the group members to discover more details of metaphor by asking correct questions. In NLP, correct questions contribute to reach unconscious mind.

The posed viewpoints are very important. Ask the members to modify their views to get successful finally to specify a special criterion which must be existed in final metaphor.

After all members talked about their metaphors and extracted each other’s key criteria, the group starts to discuss and negotiate to determine a new metaphor for the viewpoint.

When the members agree on the metaphor, invite them to draw a plan of shared metaphor on the paper. In this case, if someone has another idea, he/she should mention and add more details to the plan as much as possible.

When the plan is ready, ask each member whether their main criterion exists in the plan anyway; when the plan completed, ask each member whether they agree upon the ultimate metaphor or not.

Apparently, team and group have no difference with each other. The similarity between team and group is that there are a number of people in both of them doing some activities together, but each of them has a different definition which obliges […]

Apparently, team and group have no difference with each other. The similarity between team and group is that there are a number of people in both of them doing some activities together, but each of them has a different definition which obliges a different function and different skills for members of a team and a group.

What is a group?

Two or more people who gather together to reach special goals is called a group. The group can be formal or informal. By formal group, we mean organizational structure. In a group, the tasks and duties of each person is specified. The tasks which are specified for each person in this way is called an individual’s task description.

Therefore, the behavior and tasks and the path which a person should proceed to reach the group’s aims have been completely specified in an organization or group. As a result, it can be said that a group is a collection of people whose tasks, roles and direction have been totally specified.

What is a team?

It may be said that the only similarity between team and group is that some people are working together, because the other features of team and group are totally different. The most important feature of a team is positive synergy. The issue of positive synergy doesn’t exist in group work at all. In a group, everyone does his assigned tasks, but positive synergy is highly important in team work.

Positive Synergy: The Most Important Feature of Teamwork

Positive synergy means that everyone’s effort should be in a way that the final result gets more than the result of each individual’s function. If we want the team achieve the positive synergy, team members should possess some properties. These properties distinguishes the nature of teamwork from group work.

What are the Required Properties of a Team to Reach Positive Synergy?

Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith who got famous by doing researches on the works of informal organizations believe that the team members are interdependent. In other words, if one member does not do his tasks, it is equal that the team work is not done.

To understand this issue better, consider the cogwheels of a clock. Each member of a team are supposed as one of the cogwheels of this clock. The output of the team is supposed as the movement of clock hands. Now if one of the cogwheels stop working, other cogwheels stop, too. Consequently, the clock hands don’t move.

In views of Mr. Katzenbach & Smith, a team is exactly similar to a clock. Now that the general nature of a team is specified for us, we can explain the necessary features of team members for s successful teamwork.

First Property: Common Goals and Approach

Assume that you decide to establish a novel and knowledge-based business. To start this business, form a team with some of your friends. Now, suppose that one of your friends becomes a member of this team because he intends to take advantage of being exempted from military service. Another member aims to raise his income in short time and your purpose is to internationalize this business.

In your view, is it possible to achieve positive synergy with all these different goals? Is teamwork possible in such a situation? The same thing exists about the performances of team members in doing their tasks. For this reason, it is said the mentality of a team members shall be coordinated with each other respecting aims, approaches and teamwork.

Therefore, before they start their business, the team members should discuss their goals, approaches and generally, their mentality in order to get coordinated. Otherwise, the team members may take some distance from each other while working. This will lead to disintegration of the team.

Another important point is one’s commitment to work; how much a person internally wants to achieve the desirable result. Whether he/she wants to spend all his ability to make a conclusion of that work or not. The level of our demands is one of the items which play a significant role in our success.

Second Property: Different and Complementary Skills

It we want the teamwork achieves the positive synergy, complementary skills are required. We know that every one’s information is incomplete. Presence of different people in a team will help to complete the information. With regard to one’s skills, everybody has a different point of view.

When there are different people with various skills in a team, the whole team finds more viewpoints. This will make the final output of the teamwork gets higher than the sum of outputs by each of the members individually. On one hand, different people have numerous talents.

Third Property: Flexibility

As we said, teamwork is like the task of clock cogwheels. But humans are not like clock cogwheels. In other words, it is not possible to put humans next to each other and assume that they work well like clock cogwheels; because humans have interactions with each other and this will make some problems.

Thus, flexibility is one of the properties that the members of a team should have to do teamwork. This flexibility has something to do with internal problems of a team. As well, the external problems of a team are the same. Some problems may happen for the team and everything doesn’t go on as it is supposed. As a result, the team should have flexibility to external factors in order to achieve the desirable result.

The experiences have shown that when some people with the named properties work together, they are more flexible to changes. This flexibility causes the result of teamwork gets better than group work.

Now, it’s time to work on the properties of each team member. What is the role of members’ intelligence in the success of teamwork? What are the required properties of team members to reach desirable results? How should be the structure of a good team? How should the management and leadership of a team be done? And what kind of connection is needed among the team members in order to have positive effect on teamwork?

There is just one fundamental difference which causes success or defeat of startups. However, succeeded and defeated startups are certainly different in many cases. But there is one substantial difference which affects the function type of defeated and successful startups and directed […]

There is just one fundamental difference which causes success or defeat of startups. However, succeeded and defeated startups are certainly different in many cases. But there is one substantial difference which affects the function type of defeated and successful startups and directed a startup towards prosperity or defeat.

But before we investigate this one fundamental difference, we should see what a defeated startup means. And basically, do we know a startup as a product or as a team?

What do we exactly mean when we talk about defeated startups? A product which was going to achieve success and attract lots of customers and impressive income, but it was not succeeded to monetize? Or by a defeated startup, do we mean a team that was not able to produce the intended product due to different reasons or could not gain its intended market portion?

Is startup a team or a product?

If we suppose a startup as a product, it would be considered defeated and finished when could not achieve the specified goals. Some startups like snap are not able to achieve the specified goals for some years, but they can finally convert into a useful and practicable product by changing the method and modifying the mistakes.

What is the difference between a startup (product) not achieved its aims and is known as finished and the startup which does not reach its goals and could finally achieve success by changing its method? It seems that team is the only factor to make this difference.

Thus, it may be better to know startup as a team rather than as a product. There were many teams producing various products and finally defeated such as Pinterest social network team, but ultimately they succeeded to produce a prosperous product.

Anyway, many may know startup as a product due to different reasons. But what is certain is that the team determines the success or defeat of a startup. So, it is better to see which factors bring about defeat or prosperity for a team.

What are the defeat or prosperity factors of a startup?

By searching in the internet, anyone can find a list of reasons for startups’ defeats. Some of these items are the result of scientific investigations and they are totally remarkable. But we want to review the defeat reasons from another aspect.

We need to know the necessary skills to succeed in any work. These skills could be classified into soft and hard skills. By hard skills, we mean the ability to do some works like programming, graphical designing, market analysis and … Soft skills include the ability to do teamwork, making effective communication with teammates, systematic thought and …

How can hard skills influence over the defeat or success of startups?

Hard skills are learnable. These skills are learnt more rapidly in practical works. Not knowing these skills will slow down the development and completion process of the work. This delay in works may be one reason of defeat.

On the other hand, lack of difficult skills can raise the expenses. High expense and long time for execution will cause the initial capital be finished before getting any desirable conclusion and will bring about defeat. But if the team is able to be coherent and work together, all these defeats and mistakes will be converted into a valuable capital to proceed.

How can soft skills affect the defeat or success of startups?

Learning soft skills is not as easy as learning hard skills. Now, knowing the soft skills related to a job is known as one of the employment criterion for many companies and organizations. Lack of soft skills will make us learn the hard skills with difficulty.

When the members of a team do not have soft skills, they cannot proceed to work together most probably. Many times, we observe different analysis about the defeat of different startups (as a product). Most of the times, these analysis refer to lack of some soft or hard skills.

Most startups of defeated teams suffer from lack of soft skills. But these skills are learnable. There is one property which helps a team to be successful despite of having no soft or hard skills. This feature is important and necessary to achieve prosperity.

To want, the key factor to achieve success

Everyone likes to succeed. If we ask anyone whether you like to be successful or not, his answer is positive. But we should know that any want has three levels.

First level of wanting

Most of the people are in first level of wanting. Those who are in this level want many things but they neither make any attempts nor do they plan to reach them. Their wanting is as if they like to obtain what they want in one night and without much effort.

Second level of wanting

Those who are in the second level of wanting make attempts to achieve their goal. They plan for what they want. They solve many problems but they may not be able to resist against some other problems.

When these people confronted with defeat, they introduce different reasons as the factors for their defeat. They presented the problems as if they were not solvable.

Third level of wanting

Those who are in third level of wanting do not have any negative concept of defeat in their minds. For these people, defeat is like a lesson which contributes them to proceed better. The people in third level of wanting in any defeat look for their own problems and mistakes before anything else; thus, they are getting stronger to continue their way.

The performance method of those who are in third level is similar to the conditions that the soldiers had in frontline in war time. The soldier in frontline cannot retreat, even he cannot stop. There is only one way for this soldier; moving forward and reaching victory or death.

Those who are in third level of wanting think and act like the soldier in frontline in war. They have no way other than going forward and reaching success; otherwise they will finally be ruined.

The people in third level of wanting are those who whether find a way or make a way. There is no meaning in cessation and defeat for these people. Therefore, they can obtain all necessary skills to reach prosperity.

We hope that if you have a purpose in your life, you want that goal like a soldier in the frontline of war. Because your prosperity is certain and definite just in this way.